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Metropolitan Theater crowds Passion" – Antique Print

Metropolitan Theater crowds Passion" — historic photograph
Metropolitan Theater crowds Passion". Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Crowds gather outside the Metropolitan Theater on F Street in Washington, D.C., for a showing billed as "Passion," which the negative sleeve records as the title. The film is generally identified with Ernst Lubitsch's 1919 German drama, released in the United States under that name, so the scene likely dates to the early years of feature films in the capital. The Metropolitan was one of the city's principal movie and vaudeville houses, and the National Photo Company, which made this glass negative, documented downtown Washington street life during these decades. The image is worth a close look for its crowd, its storefronts, and its record of how theater-going drew people into the street.

Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
GenreTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,365 × 5,135 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-259140

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